#misery

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#beings #each #happiness #help #human

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#deal #life #misery #others #overwhelmed

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#day #each #endless #every #fact

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#just #know #meant #misery #show